TY - BOOK ID - 86050365 TI - Conservative party-building in Latin America : authoritarian inheritance and counterrevolutionary struggle PY - 2021 SN - 0197537553 0197537545 PB - New York, New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conservatives KW - Political parties KW - Latin America KW - Politics and government KW - Persons KW - Conservatism KW - Conservativism KW - Neo-conservatism KW - New Right KW - Right (Political science) KW - Political science KW - Sociology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86050365 AB - Where do strong conservative parties come from? While there is a growing scholarly awareness about the importance of such parties for democratic stability, much less is known about their origins. In this groundbreaking book, James Loxton takes up this question by examining new conservative parties formed in Latin America between 1978 and 2010. The most successful cases, he finds, shared a surprising characteristic: they had deep roots in former dictatorships. Through a comparative analysis of failed and successful cases in Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and Guatemala, Loxton argues that this was not a coincidence. ER -